Sayan Mandal

Sayan Mandal received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India, in 2017 and M.Sc. in Computer Science (major: Machine Learning, minor: Visual Computing), with distinction, from Technische Universität Graz, Austria, in 2024. Before joining Masters, he worked in the field of Computer Vision for over 4 years with two leading startups in India. For his M.Sc. thesis, he worked as a Student Project Assistant in FutureWoods Project at ICG, TU Graz, Austria, funded by FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency and the Vienna Scientific Cluster supercomputer. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Iceland in conjunction with the “AI and ML for Remote Sensing” Simulation and Data Lab, JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. His main research interests include developing robust deep learning models for remote sensing applications, foundation models and exploring AI efficiency, using HPC systems. He is also a reviewer in IEEE Access.